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Thursday, 29 April 2010 11:31
CANVAS started a joint graduate program at Faculty of Political Science at Belgrade University in January 2008. and at this moment has second generation of students. Name of this course is Strategies and Methods of Nonviolent Social Change and is the first certified course dedicated to Strategic Nonviolent struggle based on CANVAS Core Curriculum.

Presenters: Courses are taught by CANVAS representatives Slobodan Djinovic, Srdja Popovic, Zivorad Andjelkovic, as well as by PhD Cedomir Cupic, PhD Zoran Stoiljkovic, PhD Slavisa Orlovic and PhD Vukasin Pavlovic from the Faculty of Political Science. Aditional presenters in these two years were John A. Gould, Associate Professor of Political Science, The Colorado College,  Dr. Stephen Zunes, a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco, Kurt Schock, Associate Professor of Global Affairs, Division of Global Affairs, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, Janet Cherry Senior Lecturer/Research Associate, Development Studies Department, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University and some formal activists from nonviolent struggles form Philippines and Georgia.  Content: The studies include the following six courses:

  1. Political Power
  2. Social Conflicts – types, causes and solution models
  3. Strategic Planning
  4. Managing Political Campaigns
  5. Methods and Tactics of Non-violent Struggle
  6. Challenges in the Process of Building Democracies



This course has become one of the most popular courses at Faculty of Political Science as average number of studnets at other courses is 15 and at Strategies and Methods of Nonviolent Social Change is 25 students.

Some of our studnets from the first year of studies, who hade best scores are now working in CANVAS on one of our projects, „Online library“ www.canvasopedia.org, as reserachers and web administrators.
 

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